whats the is this 12th planet i've been hearing about, and when might we feel its wrath...?

Answer 1

That will either be the hypothetical planet Niburu (spoken of in Babylonian mythology) or the hypothetical planet Wormwood (written of in the Bible). According to their respective adherents, they are coming our way, and will be harbingers of death, doom and disaster when they get here.

Yet curiously the mystics who believe in this nonsense are enthusiastic about the Good News that they are bringing us! Which is, I have to say, a trifle confused. I can understand anyone being pleased that salvation was allegedly imminently at hand but does death, doom and disaster really merit a "Whoopee! Roll On the Day!" reaction?

When challenged to say where the doom planet is, and what is its orbit, and asked whether any reputable astronomy or science magazine like Nature or Sky & Telescope or the NASA website or the Minor Planet Centre has reported observations of an unknown planet-sized body, they are unable to answer these questions.

The whole idea of scientific prediction of future behaviour, based on observations of previous behaviour is, it seems totally foreign to them, though mankind has been studying planetary motions, conjunctions, alignments, occultations etc for four millennia now. Mystics bypass the need for all that technical stuff by substituting prophecy for prediction and feel that their unsubstantiated assertions that "Nibiru/Wormwood is coming" should suffice as a statement of what is about to happen.

If only life were that simple! It is very unbreasonable of us, I know, but when we hear crazy talk being spouted, we want proof.

As regards when this personification of wrath is suppposed to get here, the date most often quoted is (surprise, surprise) 2012. i.e. they are latching on to the phobias created by the Mayan Calendar mystics to make their prophecies sound more credible.

In doing so they manage to conveniently forget that the Mayans in Latin America and the Babylonians in modern-day Iraq were separated by several thousand of miles of ocean, and that there were no satellite telecomunications in those days and so the Mayans and Babylonians didn't actually know of each other's existence, let alone share a common body of beliefs and superstitions!

Answer 2

There is no known 12th planet in the Solar System. At this point the Solar System has only eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, in order. The object you were hearing about is probably Eris, previously known as 2003UB313, a rocky object in the Kuiper Belt slightly larger than Pluto. You can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28dwarf_planet%29
I'm not sure what you mean by 'feel its wrath'. To scientific knowledge there are almost certainly no aliens living on Eris, nor is there any realistic chance of Eris or any object orbiting it crashing into Earth. We don't have anything to fear from it.

Answer 3

Well the 12th planet thing, first I was thinking you where looking at this out dated chart: http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/060816_planets_12_02.jpg
When they were going to add planets to the solar system before coming up with the term Dwarf Planet and taking one away.

Then I saw your "feel its wrath" and was like, oh she's talking about Planet Nibiru with its (about) 3600 year orbit. Alright cool, I just did a post on it the other day, everyone else said it was fake, so I took up the 'its real side' I never heard of it before but I did some reseach on it and here is what I found.

Nibiru, to the Babylonians, was the celestial body associated with the god Marduk. The name is Akkadian and means 'crossing place' or 'place of transition'. The term "Nibiru" comes from the Sumerian cuneiform tablets and writings dating 5,000 years old. The term Nibiru means "Planet of the crossing". Please note that the two cultures that have never meet, and lived so far apart, both speak of a 'planet' and 'Crossing' in common.

According to proponents such as renowned historian, Hebrew scholar, author, speaker and archaeologist Zecharia Sitchin and Burak Eldem the Nibiru appearing in Sumerian records correctly refers to a large planetary body. Their research proposes that it possesses a highly elliptical, 3630-year orbit. Such a planet would be approximately in the same orbit as 2000 CR105.

For those of you that don't know what 2000 CR105 is, 2000 CR105, is the fourth most distant known object in the solar system after Eris, 2000 OO67 and Sedna, and is counted as a scattered disc object. It circles the sun in a highly eccentric orbit every 3240 years at an average distance of 219 astronomical units (1 AU being about equal to the mean Earth-Sun distance: roughly 150 gigametres).

2000 CR105 is important because, 2000 unlike other scattered disc objects in that at their perihelion distances, they are not within the gravitational influence of the planet Neptune. It is something of a mystery how these objects came to be in their current far-flung orbits. One hypothesis posits that they were pulled from their original positions by a passing star or a very distant and as-yet-undiscovered (albeit unlikely) giant planet. Unlikely or not, that hypothesis might just be the smoking gun for the Nibiru supporters.

Nibiru might have a hidden allie! Which would help fit into that hypothesis, and add fuel to the fire. Muller's Nemesis theory is that our Sun has a companion star responsible for recurring episodes of wholesale death and destruction here on Earth. Nemesis is a is a common red dwarf star that would be visible through binoculars or a small telescope, if only we knew which of some 3,000 stars to look at. These are stars that have been cataloged, but their distances are not known.

If Nemesis is real, it could explaine the 'crossing' planet if its trapped between the two suns, and does a figure 8 between them, crossing from one to the other, 2000 CR105 orbits every 3240 years, so if Nibiru was just a little bit past it, and did orbit both stars, that could explaine the other few hurand years.

More proof on Nemesis and Nibiru can be found with Pluto. Seasonal change on Pluto is causing the planet to warm up even as it moves away from the Sun, according to two studies that also detected the first firm signs of weather on the tiny planet. Why would Pluto be warming up, unless it was getting closer to another sun, or near a large planet and the force of that planet's gravity tugging on it was causing the frection to heat the planet.

Is any of this proof of Nibiru? Maybe, it shows we don't know everything about or own Solar System, and there's a lot of unknowns that Nibiru can answer. Does this mean, even if it is real, we're going to feel its wrath? No, not unless its really the red dwarf and not a planet, in which case, yeah we're all gonna die. If its real.

Answer 4

There are some such stories circulating, based on various myths, where some planet in a strange orbit that takes it far out past Pluto returns to the inner solar system every so many thousand years to cause all sorts of trouble. But it is just a myth; it isn't real.

Answer 5

There is no 12th planet. In our solar system we have 8 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. We also have three dwarf planets: Ceres, Pluto, and Eris. The dwarf planets however are rather small.

Answer 6

Why don't we find 9, 10, and 11 first.

Answer 7

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/youare